Head Coach Bill Straub and the Nebraska bowling team will be featured on HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel Tuesday night at 9 p.m. (CT). Real Sports correspondent Mary Carillo traveled to Lincoln to meet the team and then to St. Louis for the NCAA Championships.

The top-seeded Nebraska bowling fell to McKendree, 2-0, in the national semifinal match, ending the Cornhuskers' season on Saturday night at Tropicana Lanes, as the Big Red fell just short of making a return to the NCAA Championship match.

Nebraska Head Coach Bill Straub was voted National Tenpin Coaches Association Division I Coach of the Year, while Julia Bond and Raquel Orozco were named first-team All-Americans and Kelly Belzeski and Meghan Straub earned third-team honors, as the NTCA announced its All-America teams at the NCAA Bowling Awards Dinner on Wednesday.

The Nebraska bowling team has been selected to its 15th-straight NCAA Championship, earning the top seed in a field of eight teams as the NCAA announced the participants on Wednesday. The 2018 National Collegiate Bowling Championship will take place April 12-14 at Tropicana Lanes in St. Louis, Mo. The last time the Huskers visited Tropicana Lanes was in 2015 when they won the National Championship.

Lincoln – The top-ranked Nebraska bowling team closed the regular season with a tournament title at the Big Red Invitational. The Huskers defeated Arkansas State 4-2 in the championship match Sunday at Sun Valley Lanes.

Lincoln – The top-ranked Nebraska bowling team continued play at the Big Red Invitational, the team's only home tournament of the season, and went 5-0 in five traditional matches on Saturday. The Huskers currently have a record of 8-1 and a total pinfall of 9,653 to sit in second place after two days of competition, just two pins behind first-place Arkansas State.

Lincoln – The top-ranked Nebraska bowling team kicked off the Big Red Invitational with a 3-1 record and currently sits in second place with a pinfall of 4,247 after the first day of competition at the Big Red Invitational at Sun Valley Lanes. Arkansas State currently holds first place with its pinfall of 4,313. McKendree sits in third with a pinfall of 4,048.

Friday-Sunday, March 2-4 – 1:20 p.m., 8:25 a.m., 8:55 a.m. – Lincoln, Neb. (Sun Valley Lanes)
The top-ranked Nebraska bowling team is set to host the annual Big Red Invitational this Friday through Saturday at Sun Valley Lanes in Lincoln. The Big Red Invitational marks the last tournament the Huskers will compete in before the NCAA Championship in April.